Here's everything you need to teach The Stories Julian Tells! The unit includes materials and activities to support and deepen comprehension, improve vocabulary and fluency, and wrap up the reading with fun extension activities--perfect for your

These 20 worksheets are a fun and easy way to provide practice for young children working on addition and subtraction strategies and fluency within 10 (CCSS 1.OA.C.5 and 1.OA.C.6). Easy prep for you (Just print!), maximum engagement for your

This resource has everything you need to teach My Father's Dragon, a Common Core Text Exemplar and my favorite book for third grade! Included are activities and materials to support and deepen comprehension, improve vocabulary and fluency, craft an

Here's a fun way for children to practice identifying basic geometric shapes by their attributes! Each of the 24 task cards gives three clues about a specific shape. Cards 1 - 8 give clues for 2-dimensional shapes; cards 9 - 19 give clues for

Your students will love performing The Little Red Hen with this 8-part reader's theater and super cute performance puppets! At the same time, they'll build reading fluency, and their listening and speaking skills. Maximum fun and engagement for

What could be more fun than reader's theater for My Father's Dragon, my favorite novel for third grade?!
This resource includes a two-page script for each chapter, written for three readers. After practicing their individual parts, children read

Get your children up and moving with this set of six active games for your class Christmas or winter party! Your students will love Shoveling Snow, Snowshoe Races, and Snowball Toss! (It doesn't snow much where I live, so this is as close to "snow"

Your students will love performing Three Billy Goats Gruff with this 8-part reader's theater and super cute performance puppets! At the same time, they'll build reading fluency, and their listening and speaking skills. Maximum fun and engagement

These spring-themed worksheets are a fun and easy way to provide practice for children working on addition and subtraction strategies and fluency within 20 (CCSS 1.OA.C.5, 1.OA.C.6, and 2.OA.B.2). Easy prep for you (Just Print!), maximum engagement

This resource has all the comprehension resources you need to teach My Father's Dragon, my favorite novel for third grade! I've aligned the materials and activities to the CCSS for third grade, but they can also be used with second and fourth grade

Put a little spring into 3-digit addition and subtraction practice (with and without regrouping) with these easy prep printables and activities! Great for second graders just learning these skills and for third graders who need review. Perfect for

Your students will love performing The Gingerbread Man with this 8-part reader's theater and super cute performance puppets! At the same time, they'll build reading fluency, and listening and speaking skills. Maximum fun and engagement for your

This bundle of Common Core-aligned resources for First Grade Treasures provides engaging and effective supplemental activities for all five anthology selections in Unit 1, California Treasures. Minimal prep for you, maximum engagement for your

This bundle of Common Core-aligned resources for Second Grade Treasures provides engaging and effective supplemental activities for all five anthology selections in Unit 1, California Treasures. Minimal prep for you, maximum engagement for your

Your students will love performing Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man, and Three Billy Goats Gruff using the 8-part reader's theater scripts and performance puppets included in this money-saving bundle! As they

Add! Subtract! Color! printables are a fun and easy way to provide written practice for young children working on strategies and fluency for addition and subtraction facts to 10 (CCSS 1.OA.C.5 and 1.OA.C.6) and to 20 (CCSS 2. OA.B.2). Easy prep for

This set of games is a great way to build fluency with multiplication facts through 12 x 12. With a separate “city” (game board) for each multiplication factor from 2 through 12, it’s easy to provide differentiated practice for your students just

Your students will love performing Goldilocks and the Three Bears with this 8-part reader's theater script and super cute performance puppets (oversized stick puppets)! At the same time, they'll build reading fluency, and listening and speaking

This bundle of Common Core-aligned resources for First Grade Treasures provides engaging and effective supplemental activities for all five anthology selections in Unit 2, California Treasures. Minimal prep for you, maximum engagement for your

These fall-themed printables are a fun and easy way to provide written practice for young children working on strategies and fluency for addition and subtraction facts within 10 (CCSS 1.OA.C.5 and 1.OA.C.6). Printables include fall season,

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching for over 20 years, all at the same school in rural northern California. For most of those years, I was a classroom teacher in grades 1, 2, and 3--and one memorable year, I taught a K-1-2 combo! I've also been a curriculum coach for reading and math, and am currently a Title 1 teacher, working with K-5 students who struggle with reading and math.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My goal has always been to make learning as hands-on and engaging as possible. I love using games whenever possible; when children are playing a game, they are relaxed and having fun--the perfect environment for learning! Toward that end, I love creating materials for my students. (And finding exceptional games and other resources on TpT!)

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I served on the board of the California Reading Association (an affiliate of the International Reading Association) for several years, and had the honor of serving as president for two years.
My Shining Teacher Moment was when a student who had struggled with reading that year gave me a note that said, "Thank you, Mrs. Hoff. You have made me LOVE reading!"

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I've been married for nearly 40 years, and am the proud mother of two wonderful, caring, generous, intelligent, talented, and witty children (all of which comes from my amazing husband). My daughter is a librarian, my son is an engineer, and my husband is a retired school administrator.